Some here may remember me getting warned by the list admin a while ago when I asked for (then offered to share) a working copy of Oracle's internal-only systemstate dump parser "ass.awk." Well I am happy to announce that I have downloaded and tried out Oracle's homegrown hang detection utility called LTOM (available on Metalink under note ID 352363.1), and discovered that it comes bundled with a nice new working copy of ass.awk. Once installed, look in the src/ directory for ass109.awk. Admittedly, hanganalyze and ASH make the need to take and analyze systemstate dumps less common, but Now maybe I can find something I can download on Metalink that includes the DUL source code... :-) I hope this is helpful. Jeremiah Wilton ORA-600 Consulting http://www.ora-600.net -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l